10 The Peanut Butter and Jelly Bandit Is

10 The Peanut Butter and Jelly Bandit Is… Officer Spence ordered us kids to go back inside the school and wait for him in the all-purpose room. That's a room we use for all purposes, so it has the perfect name. I looked at the clock as we went into school. It was almost three o'clock. Soon it would be time to go home. We got to the all-purpose room, and it was amazing! The whole stage was filled with a long line of jail cells. Each one had a different grown-up in it—Mrs. Roopy, Mrs. Yonkers, Ms. Hannah, Mr. Loring, Miss Small. They were all there. "WOW!" we said, which is "MOM" upside down.

"Help! Help! Let us out!" The teachers were yelling and rattling their cages. "Officer Spence is crazy!" "You have the right to remain silent!" Officer Spence yelled at them. "So shut up!" I had to admit, the whole thing was pretty cool. It was a lot like going to the zoo, except there were teachers in the cages instead of monkeys, bears, and baboons. It was a real Kodak moment. You should have been there!

"There aren't any more grown-ups for Officer Spence to arrest," Ryan whispered. "What's he gonna do now?" "Beats me" I said. Officer Spence climbed up on the stage and grabbed the microphone. "Okay, I have looked over all the evidence" he announced. "I, examined fingerprints. I looked at hair samples under a microscope. I got the results of the DNA tests. And now I know the truth. I know who the guilty party is. The peanut butter and jelly bandit is…" I leaned forward in my seat. We all leaned forward in our seats. It was really suspenseful! Everybody got quiet. You could hear a pin drop. But not one of those little pins you use for sewing clothes. Those pins don't make any noise when you drop them.

I tried that once, and I couldn't hear it at all. I mean like a bowling pin. Because they make a lot of noise when they drop. Bowling is fun. I got a 109 once. I'm going bowling on Saturday because I got invited to Neil the nude kid's birthday party. They're going to put up bumpers so we can't throw any gutter balls. But that doesn't have anything to do with all the suspense that was in the all-purpose room. "The peanut butter and jelly bandit is…" Officer Spence didn't have the chance to finish his sentence. Because at that moment, the most amazing thing in the history of the world happened. But I'm not going to tell you what it was. Okay, okay, I'll tell you. But you have to read the next chapter to find out. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you!